Brewhouse Quotes & Sayings

What I don't like is snark for snark's sake. If you are going to make fun of me, at least be witty while doing it. — Timothy Ferriss

The midlife crisis you're having at 30 is indulgent, but the midlife crisis you have at 45 is to an extent thrust upon you. — Moby

Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself. — Elizabeth I

To a greater or lesser extent there goes on in every person a struggle between two forces: the longing for privacy and the urge to go places: the introversion, interest directed within oneself toward one's own inner life of vigorous thought and fancy; and extroversion, interest directed outward, toward the external world of people and tangible values. — Vladimir Nabokov

Our attitude determines how we evaluate our life's experiences. They determine how we evaluate ourselves. They also govern how we look at other people. Are we inclined to judge an eternal soul by the appearance of an earthly body? Do we see the beautiful soul of a brother or sister or do we only see that person's earthly tabernacle? Bodies can be distorted by handicap, twisted by injury or worn by age. But if we can learn to see the inner man and woman, we will be seeing as God sees and loving as He loves. — Dallin H. Oaks

In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound you had to not be able to understand it. — Joshua Bell

The whole idea that people have a clue as to how the world works, is just a piece of laughable metaphysical colonialism perpetrated upon the wild country of time. — Lorrie Moore

God's image ... is found not best in individual humans, but in humans as they relate to each other. — Luke Timothy Johnson

I am weary of happiness, both as a word and as a concept. — Meghan Daum

Systems Thinkers shape a worldview based on the realization of interconnectedness. — Pearl Zhu

The previous day she had been on a conference call with a younger Urban Outfitters marketing team member (the chain now sells more vinyl and turntables than anyone else in America), who asked Braun what the little lines on the records meant. "I had to tell her those are the songs," she said. — David Sax

Trust.
Flipping through his contacts, he brought up the one he needed. The only person he could trust with this. Trust with his wife. He swiped to place the call and prayed he was making the right choice. — Jennifer Kacey

So long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing, I will make mine whiskey. — W.C. Fields

It's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that really matter. — Scott Belsky

Entomologists trap insects in their killing jars and then pin their corpses to cards, and no one utters a single squeak of protest. For that matter, let a gentleman hunt a tiger for its skin, and everyone applauds his courage. But to shoot a dragon for science? That, for some reason, is cruel. — Marie Brennan